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One of the great tragedies of modern life is the need to actually leave the house in order to purchase copious amounts of booze. All of that walking. All of that chatting with liquor store employees. All of that staring at receipts. It’s just so tiring! Thank goodness, then, that a team of industrious entrepreneurs has invented an app that lets you order whatever spirits you want with a push of a touchscreen.

The app, conveniently named Saucey, works similarly to other on-demand services like Netflix and Grubhub. You decide what kind of alcohol you desperately want to imbibe and then it undergoes a two-part delivery process to end up at your door. First it heads to your local liquor store and from there it lovingly appears on your doorstep, ready for all the drunk texting you can muster.

Sriracha is an addictively spicy hot sauce that has found its way into the kitchens and hearts of cooks around the globe. Although it originated in the Thai city of Sri Racha, Sriracha is now used to kick up all types of cuisines. You can use it on everything from your morning eggs to an evening cocktail. Sriracha definitely carries heat (a dot of the stuff will do the trick), but the hot sauce has a complex flavor; it’s vinegary and slightly sweet behind that red hot heat. Next time you’re craving something hot, reach for a bottle of your favorite Sriracha and get your fix with these 25 ways:

1. Start off by making your own Sriracha-Style Hot Sauce. It’s an overnight process, but if you properly can and seal it, this homemade Sriracha lasts up to a year.
2. Kelsey Nixon’s Asian Chicken Burger with Spicy Lemongrass Mayo and Pickled Asian Slaw is a lighter variation on the standard burger. The quick-pickled slaw adds lots of texture and flavor without a ton of calories.
3. Pimento cheese is a traditional Southern food, made with cream cheese, pimentos and shredded Cheddar. Normally served between two sliced of white bread, try the spicy version, Matt’s Sriracha Pimento Cheese Dip with vegetables and cracker for dipping, in a sandwich or even on top of baked potatoes.
4. Michael Symon fries chicken twice before serving. Once at a lower temperature to cook the chicken through and the second time at a higher temperature to get it super crispy. Twice-Fried Chicken with Sriracha Honey (pictured above) is fried in lard, which can be found at the butcher or meat department of the grocery store, or other oil with a high smoke point such as peanut oil.
5. For an all-out Southern feast, serve Michael Symon’s chicken (above) with Sherla’s Southern Greens.Read more

I’m a big Gilmore Girls fan, but nothing bums me out more on that show than when Lorelai and Rory order pizza. Diagnosed with celiac just as the show went into syndication (and the weekend marathon watching commenced), I still get super-sad when the gals of Stars Hollow try to save a bad day by ordering pizza — something I’ll never be able to do again.

Pizza’s a tricky thing for people who can’t eat gluten. Lots of places make gluten-free pizza, but they don’t use separate prep and cooking areas, and cross-contamination is a risk not worth taking.

Still, there’s no such thing as “out of sight, out of mind” when it comes to the awesomeness that is pizza, whether it’s with icy soda or cold beer.

Thoughts of travel in Africa may conjure images of lions and elephants, or safaris seeking photographic trophies or even hidden treasures. True, this is all on offer, but for the culinary adventurer there are different kinds of quests to be had — especially when looking for ingredients to cook with. On a recent safari in Namibia, I “discovered” a rare oil derived from the endemic !nara plant (pronounced with a click sound followed by “na-ra”), which adds a unique, fruity and nutty flavor to meats and vegetables. It’s one of several “secret” oils found all around the continent if you look hard enough.

Everyone knows that a zombie apocalypse will never happen. Some kind of virus that turns us into unstoppable, and hungry, killing machines? Yeah right. A robot apocalypse, however, is absolutely within the realm of possibility. Introducing a robot that knows if food tastes good or not, brought to you by the Thai government.

The Thai Delicious Committee recently unveiled the robot as insurance against crappy Thai food. Essentially, they send the robot around the world to make sure nobody is screwing up any of their national dishes. This nameless, unfeeling robot is outfitted with a bevy of sensors that analyze the chemical signatures of a variety of Thai staples. It then awards the dish a score of 1 to 100. If it falls below 80, the robot sends the offending chef on a ‘vacation.’ OK, that last part is made up. They just get a bad score.

Although Mother Nature may still be confused, we’re certain that it’s officially the season of crisp red apples, warm spices and changing leaves. Take advantage of early apples to make this gorgeous baked take on classic caramel apples. Besides embodying all of the colors of fall, this Caramel Apple Cake with Salted Caramel Buttercream hits on the flavor, too, combining applesauce, cinnamon, brown sugar and caramel. For a sweet, surprising finish, top the cake with homemade caramel apples!

There’s no doubt oats are a healthy food. After all, they’re packed with soluble fiber (the kind that helps lower your cholesterol and helps keep your blood sugar from spiking) and they’re relatively low in calories (1/3 cup of dry oats clocks in at 100 calories). They also give you a smattering of B vitamins and minerals (including a whopping amount of manganese, which you need for healthy bones). But if you’re finding yourself bored by the regular old morning oatmeal with brown sugar, it’s time to embrace new ways to eat oats.

Steel-cut oats are the perfect backdrop for savory toppings. A fast option is topping it with a dollop of peanut butter, a squirt of sriracha and some diced pineapple. Or bring steel-cut oats to the brunch table by topping with sauteed onions and peppers, cilantro, black beans and queso fresco. You can go the route of cooking steel-cut oats in a slow-cooker overnight, or try quick-cooking steel cut oats to work them easily into a quick meal.

As the saying goes, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But when i am a food blog reinvents classic creamy-without-cream carbonara pasta to incorporate Chinese sausage, you won’t find us complaining. The spiced links stand in for pancetta, imbuing a distinct smoky flavor and a whole different take on fusion.

Peanut butter has a lot of best friends, including chocolate and jelly. Combine all three into Chocolate PB&J Cups by Love & Lemons. They’re vegan and gluten-free, and a sprinkle of sea salt will leave you tingling.

Football season is here! It’s time for buds, brews and, of course, Buffalo sauce. Like peas & carrots, spicy Buffalo and the ol’ pigskin are meant to be together. It’s one of those rare instances of cosmic serendipity that reminds us that everything is going to be all right.

Lucky for all of us, Buffalo chicken couldn’t be a simpler miracle to pull off. Toss your edible of choice (in this case some chicken meatballs) in a combination of hot sauce, butter and vinegar to get things going. Gild the lily with some creamy blue cheese dressing (follow the homemade recipe below, or go with your favorite store-bought variety) and you won’t even notice the stealth-healthy shrine of salad greens that lurk beneath your Buffalo chicken.

Bonus: Putting these meatballs over salad greens is a great way to round them into a complete meal. Double up on the meatball portion of this recipe and prepare the dressing as a dipper for a simple and satisfying game-day snack.

Sure, transporting beer to and fro using a truck has worked just fine for the past hundred years or so, but it’s 2014 and humanity demands a more efficient way to get at their hops. Belgium may have just cracked the code: They’ve begun jettisoning their beer underground.

The citizens of Bruges, Belgium, have just approved an underground pipeline that will stretch for miles, transporting beer from breweries to bottling plants. All told, the pipeline will ship 6,000 liters per hour. If only somebody would adapt this plan for pizza.

As of this writing, however, the city has no contingency plan in place for beer-swilling moles or drunken revelers with jackhammers.

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